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[Bug math/20123] [powerpc] Enable libmvec vector math library on POWER VSX
- From: "hi-angel at yandex dot ru" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:07:54 +0000
- Subject: [Bug math/20123] [powerpc] Enable libmvec vector math library on POWER VSX
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- References: <bug-20123-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20123
Hi-Angel <hi-angel at yandex dot ru> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Hi-Angel <hi-angel at yandex dot ru> ---
(In reply to David Edelsohn from comment #0)
> Add PPC64 LE Linux support for the libmvec vector math library to exploit
> the POWER8 VSX SIMD instruction set.
Hello, I wanted to take a stab at it, but could you please clarify how am I
supposed to test it? I found "POWER9 Functional Emulator"¹, which comes with a
README on how to run it, however boot-linux-le-skiboot.tcl which supposedly
ought to run a VM quits with errors. E.g.:
$ tclsh /opt/ibm/systemsim-p9/run/p9/linux/boot-linux-le-skiboot.tcl
no such variable
(read trace on "env(LIB_DIR)")
invoked from within
"source $env(LIB_DIR)/p9/systemsim.tcl"
(file
"/opt/ibm/systemsim-p9/run/p9/linux/boot-linux-le-skiboot.tcl" line 77)
I managed to workaround env-related errors by wrapping into a script, but whole
tcl-part seems to be broken because scripts lack lots of functions and
variables. And they're really don't seem to be defined, e.g. it's failing on
renaming `::help`, but there isn't `proc help` to begin with. I defined `help`,
but now it's failing on non-existing `config` variable.
Initially I tried it on Archlinux, but then I installed a Ubuntu VM, and tested
there, it behaves absolutely the same.
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Advises on getting an environment for solving the bug is appreciated.
1: https://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/pwrfs/pwr9/home.html
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